BayCare earned national recognition for quality, safety and patient experience while continuing to expand care across West Central Florida. Through continued investments in physician training, research, new technology and treatments, BayCare delivers clinically excellent care, guided by compassion and focused on better outcomes for all.
Proton therapy will deliver precise radiation treatment, designed to improve patient comfort and minimize side effects.
After a tragic accident, a family finds lifesaving care and healing support at the Ronald McDonald House at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital.
BayCare welcomes 170 new resident physicians and fellows across 16 programs, advancing medicine in West Central Florida.
As West Central Florida grows, BayCare is evolving as an academic health system by training future physicians and ensuring patients will find all the care they need close to home.
By the end of 2025, BayCare’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) program was operating 14 BayCare-sponsored and university-sponsored residency programs. In fall 2025, nearly 300 resident physicians were trained — more than twice the number of residents trained in 2024 — and the first class of BayCare-sponsored pediatrics residents graduated.
In June 2025, BayCare and Northwestern Medicine leaders announced a strategic collaboration that strengthens BayCare’s role as an academic health system serving West Central Florida. The collaboration connects BayCare with one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers to advance care, research and medical education across the region.
Through this collaboration, BayCare is:
To support continued growth in academic medicine, BayCare acquired 36 acres at Tampa Bay Park near St. Joseph’s Hospital, expanding its available space by more than 75%. Now known as the BayCare Academic Health and Research Corridor, the campus will support expanded BayCare Medical Group physician practices and serve as the headquarters for BayCare’s Graduate Medical Education and research programs.
BayCare continues to expand access to advanced cancer care so patients across West Central Florida can receive treatment closer to home. Beginning in 2026, BayCare will offer proton therapy, a highly precise form of radiation treatment designed to target tumors while helping reduce short- and long-term side effects. In 2025, BayCare introduced the region’s only High Risk Cancer program, helping high-risk patients begin screening earlier, when treatment can be most effective.
BayCare opened Florida’s first behavioral health urgent care center in Pasco County, offering walk-in and same-day appointments for individuals in urgent need of mental health or substance abuse care.
On the same campus, BayCare also broke ground on a new Central Receiving Facility (CRF), the first of its kind in Pasco County, expanding access to crisis stabilization and strengthening BayCare’s behavioral health continuum of care.
BayCare became the first health system in Florida to offer neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) couplet care in 2025, a model that supports mothers and newborns staying in the same room, even when the baby requires intensive care. Launched at Morton Plant Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital-North, this model reduces the stress of separation, supports breastfeeding and strengthens early bonding.
All seven delivering hospitals now have at least Level II neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).
BayCare’s six Clinical Institutes continue to transform how the health system delivers care across the region. In 2025, they oversaw the launch of 12 new Comprehensive Care Centers (CCC), designed to make it easier for patients to access the highest quality care, connect with expert providers and receive personalized support. Located within hospitals, BayCare’s CCCs include seven dedicated to joint repair or replacement, two breast care centers, two gynecologic oncology centers, an atrial fibrillation center and an advanced heart failure center.
